Window-shade-roller fixture



Dec. 4 1923.

I 1,476,160 c. w. KIRSCH I WINDOW SHADE ROLLER FIXTURE Filed Nov. 23,1922 Patented Dec. 4, 1923.

UNITED SATE CHARLES W. KIRSCH, OF STUIRGIS, MICHIGAN.

WINDOW-SHADE-ROLLER rixronn.

application filed November 23, 1922.. Serial No. 602,905.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES W. Kmson, a citizen of the United States,residing at Sturgis, in the county of St. Joseph and State of Michigan,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Window-Shade-Roller Fixtures, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to provide a window-shade rollerfixture including, as an integral part thereof, the brackets required topivotally support a windowshade roller of .the Hartshorn or similartype, and a companion element, also integral therewith, to which a hoodfor covering the extreme end portions of the shade,

roller .may be detachably secured, and wherein the last-namedelementofthe fixture, and the hood, are so associated when coupled, as topresent to the eye no open- 7 space beyond the end of the shade rollerrThe invention may be embodied in fixtures adapted to'be mounted. on thefront surface of a window frame or the like or upon the opposed sidewalls thereof, both embodiments, in their preferred form, beingillustrated in the accompanying drawings in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a pair of fixtures constructed inaccordance with my invention, together with a window shade roller andwindow shade supported thereby, showing the same mounted upon the frontwall of a window casing;

Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section on the line 2-2 of Fig, 1;

Fig. 3 is a horizontal orplan section on the line 33 of Fig. 1;-

.Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of one member of the fixture;

Fig. 5 is a similar perspective viewj the fixture as embodied to adaptit to be cured to one of the opposed side walls of a \'\"indow.casing orthe l-ike;-and

Fig. 6 is a detail perspective view of the hood adapted to be associatedwith the respective fixtures shown'in Figs. 4 and 5.

The present invention resides in certain improvements in the deviceillustrated and described in Letters Patent of the United States No.1,388,846, dated August 23, .1921.

nary manner, whereby the relative positions of such fixtures and thecover means may be definitely maintained and both thereof simultaneouslymounted on a win dow casing without the double work and measuringrequired where such fixtures are separate fromeach other.

A further object of the invention is to provide a window-shade fixtureof the character set forth adapted for mounting either on the' frontface or the opposed side walls of a window casing or the like whereinthe hood and the meansfor detachably se-t curing the same to. suchfixtures are identical and interchangeable, that is to say, so that thesame. hood may be used for either type of such fixtures."

Referring now to said drawings and particularly to Fig. .4, thereof, itwill be seen that the device comprises a plate 1 equipped onopposigeparallel edges with parallel flanges 2 and the latter beingformed to adapt the same to receive the respective end projections of awindow-shade roller, as;for example, is shown in Fig. 4 for one end, andin Fig. 2 for the other end of such roller. The flange 2 terminates atits extreme end in a tongue 4 equipped with an integral flat springportion 5 at about itsmiddle, said tongue. being adapted to engageformations of the hood. 6, hereinafter described, fondetachably securingsaid hood to said flange. The plate 1 is further provided along oneedge, with projections 7 having openings or perforations 8 there Iporting the window-shade roller in the ordi for the passage of Screws orthe like, means of WhlCh Sid plate may be secured to the front face of awindow casing. In Fig. ithe said projecmiddle portion of the plate 1,whereas, as shown in Fig. 5, said projections are disposed contiguous tothe opposite side edges of the flange 9 (corresponding generally withthe flange 2 of Fig. 4) and extend perpendicutions 7 are disposedcontiguousflto theside edges of the flange 3 and are flush, with thelarlyor substantially perpendicularly to the middle portion of the plate10, (corresponding to the plate 1 of Fig. 4) said plate 10being-however, slightly curved and terminating in the shade-rollerfixture or bracket 11 corresponding to the fixture or bracket 3, shownin Fig. 4. r

' The extreme end portion 12 of the flange 9 corresponds in size andshape and in every other detail, with the tongue 4 of Fig. 4, so

that the same hood 6 adapted to be mounted ably mounted upon the saidend portion 12 of the flange 9.

Referring now to Fig. 6, it will be noted that the hood consists of thesubstantially semi-cylindrical wall portion 6, the ends of whichterminate in parallel flat flanges 13. Said hood is provided with-an endwall 14, out of which there are struck a plurality of pairs of opposedfL-shaped projections or flanges 15 between the outermost portions ofwhich, and the inner face of Said wall 14, the tongue 4, or end portion12 of the flanges 2 or 9, respectively, are adapted to be received andengaged, the side edgeportions of said tongue 4, and end portion 12,respectively, being adapted to abut against the lugs of said flanges orprojections 15, in an, obvious manner. The springs 5 are offset out ofregister with the opposite faces of the tongue 4 and end portion 12,respectively, and outwardly with respect to the outer face thereof andare adapted to bear upon the inner face of the end'wall 14 of the hoodto provide sufficient frictional engagement to firmly hold the hoodengaged with the tongue or end portion, respectively, referred to.

The said end-wall 14 of the hood is provided with a recess 16 midwaybetween its side edges, said recess being of slightly greater width thanthe tongue 4 or end portion 12 and being adapted to have the innerfac'eof its end wall become disposed flush and in contact with the baseof the tongue 4 or end portion 12, the portions of the end wallbordering the sides of the recess 16 being adapted, in the case of thefixture shown in Fig. 4, to overlap that portion of the flange 2 whichis disposed inwardly of the tongue 4. The portion referred tomay be saidto extend from the plane of the shoulclers 17 outwardly to the base ofthe tongue 4, thus providing recesses or cut away portions outwardly ofthe base portion of the flange 2 into which the flanges 13 are adaptedto project. Thus, when the hood is mounted on the fixture shown in Fig.4, there will be no open space between the base of the flange 2 and theoutermost portion of the hood 6, this being particularly illustrated inFig. 2.

Owing to the-fact that the projections 11, in the case of theconstruction shown in Fig. 5, must be cut out of a part of the metalwhich, in F ig. 4, constitutes the flange 2, the end portion 12,corresponding to the aw ence tongue 4, is of slightly greater width thanthe flange 9 inwardly thereof, so that when the hood is mountedon saidportion 12, the portions of the endwall at the sides of. the recess 16,will overlap the projectionsw 11 and, because 'of the fact that saidprojections are secured to a side wall of a window, casing or the like,such overlapping effects substantially the same results, in so-far aspresenting no open spaces to the eye is concerned, as the overlapping ofa portion of the flange 2 by the said portion of the end wall borderingthe slots of the recess; 16, accomplishes with. respect to the structureshown in Fig. 4.

Obviously the invention may be somewhat said flange provided with meansfor engaging a pivot element of a shade roller, a second flange extendinfrom the opposite edge of said plate parall el with the first namedflange, a hood adapted to cover and hide from view the first namedflange and the contiguous portion of a shade-roller engaged therewith,and inter-engaging formations on said last named flange and said hoodfor separably coupling them.

2. In a device of the kindspecified as de-.

fined in the preceding claim, including a substantially semi-cylindricalhood havin one end wall and having its semi-cylindrical wall terminatingin parallel flanges separated from each other a distance substantiallyequal to the width of the plate, the

end wall of said hood extending betweensaid flanges and presenting anedge flush with the ends thereof, the said end wall of the hood adaptedto overlap a parallel portion cf the structure when disposed in normalposition thereon whereby to obviate open spaces between the innermostedge portion of the end wall of the hood andthe plate.

CHARLES W. KIRSCH.

